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Broken Hill & the Far West · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1892

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Utilising Victorian Coal. LONDON

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 September 1892 · page 2

Mr. Samuel Holmes is arranging to send to Melbourne a complete apparatus for making briquettes of the Victorian brown lignite coal, found in…

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The South Mine. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 September 1892 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the Broken Hill South Silver Mining Company was held yesterday, Mr. Levien, M.P., presiding. The…

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POLITICAL. Debate on the Addiess-in-Reply. Mr. Cotton on Mining on Private Property. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 1 September 1892 · page 2

In the Legislative Council last night, merely preliminary business in the way of appointing sessional committees, &c., was done. After a…

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Leigh's Creek (S. A.) Coal

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 2

With reference to the telegram from our Adelaide correspondent on Wednesday, that an important development had occurred at the Leigh's…

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Mining News. The Yongaleatha

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the Yongaleatha Marble Flag and Flux Company was held in Adelaide on Wednesday, Mr. G. P. Doolette presiding over…

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Stray Notes. Mining on Private Property

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 2

MR. FRANK COTTON, though he may be by no means an influential member of the Legislative Assembly, indicated pretty clearly on Wednesday night…

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Fatal Mining Accident. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Friday 2 September 1892 · page 4

Further details concerning the mining accident at Bendigo yesterday, which was briefly telegraphed this morning, show that it occurred at the New Chum…

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The " Bulletin " on Reopening the Mines

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1892 · page 4

It looks much as if the swagger pretence of resuming work at the Broken Hill [?]ines was only an endeavor to rig the London share market[?] after all. It…

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Colliery Explosion Forty Lives Lost. [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1892 · page 2

Intelligence has been received of an[?] explosion from firedamp in a colliery at Frameries, in the province of Hainault, in Belgium…

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Fatal Mining Accident. [By Telegraph.] Melbourne, Friday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 September 1892 · page 4

Further details concerning the mining accident at Bendigo yesterday, which was briefly telegraphed this morning, show that it occurred at the New Chum…

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Mining News

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 September 1892 · page 2

In a letter to the press Mr. G. C. Loughnan, chairman of the Central Broken Hill S. M. Company, states that he wishes to point out a fact…

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The "Bulletin" on Reopening the Mines

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 September 1892 · page 4

It looks much as if the swagger pretence of resuming work at the Broken Hill mines was only an endeavor to rig the London share market, after all. It…

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Some Remarkable Mines

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 September 1892 · page 3

THERE are in England several coal and metalliferous mines which extend and are worked at a considerable distance out to sea. But perhaps the most remarkable…

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Display on that Mines. The Police Join in the Farce

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 September 1892 · page 2

The mine authorities or police affected to believe yesterday that the Proprietary mine was to be rushed for the purpose of taking out the…

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The Preparations on the Mine. The "Fortifications." [By One Within the Lines.]

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 September 1892 · page 2

Friday night, and still all alive The Proprietary began to assume a military aspect and those upon it to imagine themseves something like…

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Blacklegs on the Mines

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 September 1892 · page 3

SIR,—Hearing that one John Delbridge, residing at Williams-street, West Broken Hill, had turned his back on his brother unionists, I repudiated the…

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3rd Edition Miner Office, 7.30 p.m. the Strike. [By Telegraph.] Applications for Work. Skilled Miners Not Forthcoming. MELBOURNE, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 September 1892 · page 4

This morning a big crowd of unemployed besieged the offices of the Proprietary Company for employment; but, after inspection it was found that…

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The Strike. [By Telegraph.] Applications for Work. Skilled Miners Not Forthcoming. MELBOURNE, Wednesday Afternoon

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 September 1892 · page 4

This morning a big crowd of un[?] employed besieged the offices of the Proprietary Company for employment; but, after inspection it was found that…

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Work at the Mines

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 2

The mine officers state that work at the Proprietary is going on satisfactorily. Hauling ore by way of Drew's shaft was started yesterday morning,…

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The Proprietary Mine. a Significant Report. Was the Strike for This? [By Cable.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 September 1892 · page 4

It is reported that an influential syndi[?]te is being formed to purchase the Broken Hill Proprietary mine. [BY TELEGRAPH.]…

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